Attachment-holder for sewing-machines



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H. 0. GOODRICH 81; F. HENRY. ATTACHMENT HOLDER FOR SEWING MACHINES.

Patented Mar. 17,1891.

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H. O. GOODRICH 85 P. HENRY. ATTACHMENT HOLDER FOR SEWING MACHINES. No. 448,225.

Patented Mar. 17, 1891.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY C. GOODRICH AND FRANK HENRY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS, 3Y .MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE CHICAGO NICKEL \VORKS, OF ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT-HOLDER FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,225, dated March 17, 1891.

Application filed January 29, 1890. Serial No. 338,492. (No model.)

cured to the pressenfoot, and more particularly to the holder for securing the attachment to the foot.

The object of our invention is to facilitate the adjustment of said attachments and to provide for their convenient insertion and removal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a hemmer embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the blank from which is formed, by bending, the slide or holder by which the attachmentis secured to the presser-foot. Fig. 4 shows the presserfoot. Figs. 5 and Gare sections on lines 5 5 and 6 6, respectively, of Fig. 1, as seen from the direction of the arrows. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the attachment in position for operation, a portion of the sewing-machine also appearing.

A is the slide that is inserted in the presser-foot and constitutes the support for the attachment. It is formed from a blank of the shape shown in Fig. 3, punched from fiat metal and bent to its finished shape, the end a forming the upper half of the slide, while the other end 1) forms the lower half. The upper half a. is beveled, as shown in Fig. 5, so as to fit into the groove of the presserfoot 13.

The attachment-in this case a heminer C is secured to the lower half b of the slide A by an arm D and rivet E. A washer E is interposed between the part b of the slide and the arm D to raise the arm D to the proper height and to aitord a better bearing-surface for the arm D. It might be made a part of the arm D. The arm D is capable of movement on the rivet E, though sufficient friction exists to hold the arm securely in any position in which it may be placed. The arm D has at one end a small horn cl, and the other end is rolled, as seen at d. The purpose of the horn (Z is to remove the slide F, Fig. 4, used for plain sewing, by inserting the horn in the needle-hole f, the arm D being grasped in the hand, which is prevented from slipping by the rolled end d. The instrument for removing the ordinary slide being thus in one with the attachment, no time or trouble is spent in looking up the special tool for that purpose. The adjustability of the arm D, carrying the attachment 0 on the pivot E, as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 1, enables the position of the line of stitching on the work to be regulated.

It generally happens in the manufacture of sewing-machine attachments designed to be secured to the presser-foot when in use that, owing to slight inaccuracies in the forming or putting together of the parts, (which inaccuracies are under ordinary circumstances unavoidable,) the alignment of the attachment when affixed to the presser-foot is not correct, the attachment being tilted or out of line in one direction or another, and hence not in position to do its work properly. To provide for the adjustment of the attachment in its proper position is the purpose of the peculiar construction of. the slide A. The said slide is made of non-resilient metal, and it may be bent at its middle part, so as to bring the lower part Z), which carries the attachment, into any desired relation to the upper part a, which is inserted in the presserfoot, so that the alignment or leveling of the attachment with reference to the work-plate of the machine may be effected without the attachment itself or its frame-work beingbent or distorted.

hat we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a sewing-machine attachment, of a slide or holder A, made of non-resilient material, and consisting of an upper portion aand lower portion 1), connected only at one end,the upper portion being fitted to the presser-foot and the lower portion being secured to and supporting the attachment, whereby the alignment of the said portion I) and of the attachment secured thereto may be adjusted by bending the middle portion connecting said parts a I), substantially as described.

2. The combination of a slide or holder A, composed of non-resilient metal and made in two parts a b, the upper part'a being fitted t0 the presser-foot of a sewing-machine, the lower part I) having an arm D, secured thereto by a rivet E, and the attachment 0, secured to 10 said arm, whereby the said attachment is ad- HARRY C. GOODRICH. t FRANK HENRY.

Witnesses:

IRWIN VEEDER, P. H. T. MASON. 

